Chris Harig

Geophysicist. U of A. I study melting ice sheets in Greenland & Antarctica. Also grad advice on youtube.

[Chris Harig @chrisharig]

I was on the radio today! Talking about the GRACE satellites. Check out the 5 min clip on NPR. https://t.co/WtXVIG3Xha

[Salvatore Mattera @SalvMattera]

1 in 37 Americans have COVID. This means that there are ~300K ppl who have COVID right now that will develop long COVID, just as I did. This is what it's like to get long COVID as a healthy young person, and what treatments are available when you have $$ and great insurance:

[Ziyad Al-Aly, MD @zalaly]

📣 New in @ScienceMagazine

I teamed up with @EricTopol to write this #SciencePerspective on Long Covid

Solving the puzzle of #LongCovid

A long 🧵

https://t.co/8hDCkk3swC

[Arijit Chakravarty @arijitchakrav]

Okay, let’s talk about “learning loss”. (H/t @McKinsey)

US high school test scores (ACT) are out - they’ve fallen steeply for the 4th year in a row. Now at their lowest level in 30yrs.

Let’s look at the data & the media narrative and weigh potential explanations, shall we? (1/)

[Chris Harig @chrisharig]

@ltelkins I did that trip in 2017. Absolutely incredible!

[Anirban @bhalomanush]

“We first sent to a Nature journal, and within 24 h, they rejected it as an incremental contribution. I started learning English only at university, so I had to look up the meaning of the word incremental!”

Katalin Karikó, in 2021, on her paper that led to a Nobel Prize today.

[Laura Miers @LauraMiers]

“U.S. Covid infections are hovering near levels of the pandemic’s first peak in 2020, and approaching the Delta peak of late 2021, according to wastewater surveillance and modeling by forecasters.” https://t.co/u5jIcd6FFr

[Prof. Jose-Luis Jimenez @jljcolorado]

Plenary Lecture from Katja Kanninen @KanninenLab at European Aerosol Conference 2023 #EAC2023

Her one sentence summary:

"Ultrafine particles have striking adverse effects on brain health"

[Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson]

Investing the same money in utility PV instead of nuclear not only produces 5.3x the total energy but also 15.9x the peak power

Also eliminates meltdown risk, weapons prolif risk, nuc waste, underground U-mining cancers, & 2-40x the CO2e emis/kWh as nuc
https://t.co/JerZLR9GxQ

[Chris Harig @chrisharig]

@drrocks1982 @GeomorphYuggs Yes I'm a lurker. Not doing AGU tho.

[NWS Tucson @NWSTucson]

The high temperature today at the Tucson Intl airport of 110°F sets a new daily record high for July 6th. The previous record of 109°F first occurred in 1989 & was later tied in 2005 & 2017.

2023 # of highs to date are:
# of 100°+F: 24
# of 105°+F: 13
# of 110°+F: 5

#azwx

[tern @1goodtern]

Imagine there were a massive fire in a town.

[tern @1goodtern]

So... 5% of fifteen year old school children in England missed HALF their classes this last year.

On a totally unrelated subject, people have been wondering what percentage of children develop Long Covid.

[NWS Tucson @NWSTucson]

We have officially reached the status of "sweltering" 🥵 The high temp at the Tucson Intl Airport was 111° today. The last time we hit over 110° was July 11th of last year! We've also tied @NWSPhoenix for high temp today! #azwx

[Kimberly Prather, Ph.D. @kprather88]

Today was the pinnacle in terms of witnessing the impact of COVID-19 denial for me. I sat in my student's exam and only 1 other person had a mask. People looked at me like I was crazy. The good news is that the ventilation was good based on CO2 levels when I walked in. (1/4)

[Jess @MeetJess]

Covid-19: Metformin reduces the risk of developing long term symptoms by 40%, study finds

Metformin—a cheap, safe, and widely available diabetes drug—could reduce the incidence of long covid if given during the acute phase of covid-19 https://t.co/ah1SHYmaAU

[Peter Forister 🍁🍂🍁 @forecaster25]

Kilauea just erupted! Explosion at 4:43am, followed by fountaining and lava flows in the crater.

Clip from the @USGSVolcanoes livestream moments ago. #kilauea